Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English I
Code: 518002

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 4 My city

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 85 points
The activity starts on: Saturday, May 13, The activity ends on: Friday, June 2,
2023 2023
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

Learning outcome 2: To recognize basic sentence structures, words, and expressions

to communicate limited information in simple short audios and conversations.

Learning outcome 4: To interact orally by using relate vocabulary from basic semantic
fields, such as family and environment, and uses them in concrete and basic familiar
conversations.

The activity consists of:

1. Go to the Book

Study Unit 2 in the E-book.

1 Listening

Listen to the audio below and select the correct answers.

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2.1 Match the people with the cities:

Yukako Cape Town

Pablo Lima
Stefan Kyoto

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 Peter Chicago

2.2 Select the correct sentences

• Kyoto:
There are a lot of new buildings
There are a lot of old buildings.
• Lima:
There are a lot of cafés.
There are a lot of cars and buses.
• Chicago:
There are a lot of museums.
There are a lot of temples.
• Cape town:
There’s a beautiful fountain.
There’s a beautiful mountain.

3 Speaking

Practice the pronunciation of the words below. Record your voice saying all these words
aloud.

Table 1 Speaking

An airport A cinema A mountain A beach A concert hall

A museum A park A bridge A fountain A church
A harbor A restaurant A theater A University A bus stop

You can check the pronunciation using these websites:

https://www.wordreference.com/
https://howjsay.com/

You can record your voice using this website:

https://vocaroo.com/

Post your recording link in the Discussion Forum.

4 Writing

Write a short text describing your city or town. Use at least five words from the Speaking
exercise above. (85 words approximately in the paragraph).

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 Post your text in the Discussion Forum.

5 Reading

Read the postcards below and make notes in the corresponding column in the table.

Postcard 1

Dear Sally:
A happy new year to all of you. You can’t imagine how cold it is in Warsaw! It is snowing
heavily today, so the children are wearing their heavy jackets and gloves to keep them
warm. They are making a snowman in the park at the moment.
Hope to see you soon.
Tom

Postcard 2

Dear mom and dad:

Greetings from Sydney. The weather is fantastic today and we are on the beach. It’s very hot
and the sun is shining, se we are all in our swimming costumes. My aunt, Sheila, and Frank
are making sandcastles. There are a lot of people on the beach today. Everyone is swimming
and enjoying the good weather.
Lots of love, Pamela

Table 2 Reading

City Weather Clothes Activities

6 Document

Post your answers from Writing and Speaking activities in the Discussion forum on time.

Create a PDF document to compile:

• Listening answers.
• Speaking recording link.

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 • Paragraph about your city or town.
• Reading chart (table).

Name your file as: Task 4_Student’s name. remember to use a cover page.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

Check the Course Agenda to be sure about starting and closing dates.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Study the Contents.

Post your answers in the Discussion forum.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Send the final PDF document to the corresponding link in Evaluation Environment.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

PDF Document with the requirements.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

The interaction with your partners in the forum.

6 General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

Participate actively and timely on the forum.

Send your final PDF document with all the requirements, a cover page and a final
reference page to the correct link in Evaluation environment.

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Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it
includes citations where there is no match between these and the reference and
paragraph f) To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

7 Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 85 points
First evaluation High level: The student recognizes basic information from an
criterion: oral production resource and identify the corresponding
information with the answers to all the questions.
Listening If your work is at this level, you can get between 16 points
and 25 points
This criterion
represents 25 Average level: The student recognizes part of the information
points of the total from the audio, but the answers presented are not completely

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of 85 points of related to the information given in the listening exercise. There
the activity. is no complete comprehension of the text.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
and 15 points

Low level: The answers presented by the student are not

related to the information given in the oral production. The
answers are incorrect and evidence lack of oral comprehension.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 5 points
Second evaluation High level: The recording presented is clear, and the
criterion: pronunciation from the student evidences practice and real
phonetic advances.
Speaking If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points
This criterion
represents 20 Average level: The recording is complete, but the
points of the total pronunciation of some words is not accurate which evidence lack
of 85 points of of practice or preparation.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 14 points

Low level: The recording presented lacks pronunciation and

practice or preparation. The student doesn’t evidence the use of
the phonetic strategies.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 9 points
Third evaluation High level: The student describes his/her own city or town with
criterion: an accurate vocabulary and grammar structures.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
Writing and 20 points

This criterion Average level: The student describes his/her city or town, but
represents 20 the vocabulary is not correct, or it evidences the use of online
points of the total translators. There are some grammar mistakes in the text.
of 85 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
the activity. and 14 points

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 Low level: The text presented by the student is not related to
the content or it doesn’t evidence real comprehension the
vocabulary and the grammar structures.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The chart is complete and presents good written
criterion: comprehension by the student. The information is well organized
and responds to the requirements.
Reading If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points
This criterion
represents 20 Average level: The chart presented is not organized, the
points of the total information is not complete, or it doesn’t respond the ideas
of 85 points of presented in the text.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
and 14 points

Low level: The student presents a chart which is not related at

all to the information presented in the texts.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 5 points